In a message dated 25/08/2007 14:40:33 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: not sure how the street was numbered, I'm sure I have been told that the streets were numbered for the convenience of the postman, hence the low numbers are at the end of the street which is nearest to the Post Office, and as one goes up a street from the lower numbers to the higher, the odd numbers are on the left and the even ones are on the right. No doubt local conditions have caused that not to be applied everywhere (and the location of the Post Office may have changed in some towns), but I find that it does apoply in most cases, even today. Stan's identification does seem to fit it. Geoff Nicholson